Ellen Dunham-Jones | |
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| Born | January 17, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Architect |
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| Alma mater | Princeton University School of Architecture |
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| Discipline | Architecture |
| Institutions | Georgia Tech |
Ellen Dunham-Jones (born January 27,1959) is an architectural educator and urbanist best known for her work on re-educating the public how to interact with their environment. She is also an authority on suburban redevelopment. [1]
Ellen Dunham-Jones studied at Princeton University,graduating with an AB in architecture and planning in 1980 and a Master of Architecture in 1983. [2] She is a registered architect in New York State.
She is a professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech,where she also serves as director of its MS in Urban Design Program in the College of Design. [2]
Dunham-Jones and June Williamson co-authored Retrofitting Suburbia:Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs which was awarded the Architecture &Urban Planning category of the 2009 PROSE Award. [3]
Dunham-Jones appeared as herself on the show Adam Ruins Everything . [8] [ unreliable source? ]
New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s,and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development,urban planning,and municipal land-use strategies. New Urbanism attempts to address the ills associated with urban sprawl and post-WW II suburban development.
The College of Architecture,Art,and Planning (AAP) is the school of architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York. It offers 20 undergraduate and graduate degrees in five departments:architecture,art,urban planning,real estate,and design technology. Aside from its main campus in Ithaca,AAP offers programs in Rome,Italy and in New York City,New York.
Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist. He is a founding partner of Gehl Architects.
The University of VirginiaSchool of Architecture is the graduate school of architecture at the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia. The school offers master's,doctoral and limited bachelor's programmes in architecture,landscape architecture,architectural history,and urban and environmental planning. Additionally,the school offers a certificate in historic preservation.
The College of Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology,established in 1908 as the Department of Architecture and also formerly called the College of Architecture,offered the first four-year course of study in architecture in the Southern United States.
Orenco Station is a neighborhood of the city of Hillsboro,Oregon,United States. The planned urban town center was designed as a pedestrian-friendly,high-density community built in conjunction with TriMet’s Westside light rail. It was built on land formerly owned by the Oregon Nursery Company,land home around the turn of the 20th century to Orenco,a company town. During the Great Depression,the company went out of business,and much of the nursery land became vacant until re-development began in 1997. Orenco Station is near the intersection of NE Century Blvd. and Cornell Road,centered on the Orenco MAX Station.
The R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning,commonly referred to as CAP,is one of seven academic colleges of Ball State University based in Muncie,Indiana,with a satellite facility in Indianapolis. The college offers degrees in architecture,landscape architecture,urban planning,historic preservation,urban design,construction management,and interior design. CAP was established in 1965.
University Town Center,formerly New Town Center,is located in Hyattsville,Prince George's County,Maryland,United States. It was a planned urban center designed by Edward Durell Stone and located on a 105-acre (0.42 km2) parcel at the intersection of Belcrest Road and East-West Highway and across from the then new Prince George's Plaza. The initial construction on this development took place in 1963–64;its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A second phase commenced after the opening of the Hyattsville Crossing station,Washington Metro rapid transit station in 1993.
Keller Easterling is an American architect,urbanist,writer,and professor. She is Enid Storm Dwyer Professor and Director of the MED Program at Yale University.
The Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design is a college part of the California State Polytechnic University,Pomona. The college houses over 1,600 students;making it one of largest environmental design programs in the United States. The college offers bachelor's degrees in five departments,as well as three master's degree programs. It is the only academic unit within the California State University system to be associated with a Pritzker Prize laureate.
Gaétan Siew is a Mauritian architect.
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The College of Architecture,Arts,and Design formerly the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech consists of four schools,including the School of Architecture,which consistently ranks among the best in the country. Headquartered in Blacksburg,Virginia,the college also has sites in Alexandria,Virginia,and Riva San Vitale,Switzerland. Spread out among these three locations,the college consists of nearly 2,200 students,making it one of the largest schools of architecture in the nation.
Midtown Centre is a business park located in the Jacksonville,Florida neighborhood of St. Nicholas. The site contains 31 buildings and was developed by Ira M. Koger. Opening in 1957 as the Koger Center,the facility is credited with being the first suburban office park. It is now owned by D Group Equities.
Jennifer Keesmaat is a Canadian real estate developer and urban planner who served as Chief City Planner of Toronto from 2012 to 2017 and the runner-up in the 2018 Toronto mayoral election to Mayor John Tory,where she won 23.6% of the vote and lost to Tory in each of Toronto's 25 wards.
Helen Marian Lochhead is an Australian architect and urbanist who combines academic and expert advisory roles with practice. Her career has focused on the inception,planning,design,and delivery of complex urban projects ranging from city improvements programs to major urban regeneration projects. She has held numerous influential roles in government,industry and universities including Dean,Faculty of Built Environment and Pro Vice-Chancellor Precincts at UNSW Sydney,National President of the Australian Institute of Architects and Deputy Government Architect in NSW. She has served on various Panels and Boards including the NSW Independent Planning Commission,The Australian Heritage Council and the National Capital Authority.
New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens,also known as NUMTOT or Numtots and variations by its members,is a Facebook group dedicated to discussion,Internet memes,and general discourse surrounding New Urbanism and public transport. As of December 2023,the group has more than 229,000 members.
Arthur C. Nelson is an American urban planner,researcher and academic. He is Professor of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development at the University of Arizona.
June Williamson is an architect and professor of architecture. She is the chair of the Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY. She is best known for her ideas regarding the retrofitting of American suburbia into a denser,more efficient system. She teaches site tech at CCNY.
Urban retrofitting is a combination of policies and phenomena done with the goal of undoing or remedying the effects of urban sprawl. The phenomena of adaptive reuse and infill development to combat sprawl are key to this. It often follows the new urbanist school of thought,which aims to undo the sprawl and flight from urbanized areas that occurred in the US and Canada after WWII.
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